7 Things that were very WRONG about Notorious.
7. Angela Bassett's accent: It's public knowledge that Biggie's mother is Jamaican-American and has a very strong accent and I absolutely love Angela as an actress but the accent was all wrong in certain scenes it was stonger than in others. In my personal opinion Viola Davis woud have been more believable as Mrs. Wallace.
6. Faith Evans: The actress who played did the role of playing Faith some justice however we all know that in real life when Biggie and Faith met she wasn't petite like the actress who played her. The producers had 2 chocies on how to handle this either they could've told the actress to gain like 20 pounds or put some booty pads or something to make her look heavier.
5.The Sex Scene: First of all what the hell?! Why did the director feel it necessary to put the scene in there? It was distasteful no one wants to see petitie Lil Kim's boobs and Biggie's stomach fat juggling all over the place. It was completely unnecessary perhaps a tasteful love scene between him and Faith(considering she was his wife) would've been better.
4.Product Placement: I can't pinpoint how many times I saw products or things that were around AFTER he passed away. Exmples evryone knows that Air Jordans came out in the early 90s not the late 80s but for whatever reason the younger Biggie in the movie sees someone who has a pair on. Then ceratin cars in some scenes weren't even made and manufactured years until after his death as well as certain brands of clothing.Producers do your research.
3.Lil Kim and Biggie: There was way more to their relationship then what was portrayad in that damn movie. I guess the fact that Kim got pregnant by him but was told by him to abort the baby becuase it would mess up her career didn't mean anything to the producers. Also Kim had no real issues with Faith contrary to what was portrayed in the movie.
2.Tupac: Now as a big Tupac fan I was utterly disgusted and disturbed to find out of all people Anthony Mackie was chosen to portray the legendary Tupac shakur. Well he looks nothing like him, didn't portry his mannerisms well and they made him out to be this ultraparanoid backstabbing rapper which he wasn't.
They made complete mockery out of him and disrespected his image. I didn't buy it.
1. The Notorious B.I.G.: A round of applause to Jamal Woodard for his portrayel of Biggie however that's the ony positive thing I'll say to that.Now we all know that his mother executive produced the picture what I can't seem to agree with was why he was portrayed to be some damn saint? He disrespected every single woman in the picture and besides rapping he just smoked and slept around, they make him look so good and downplay Pac during the whole East Coast/West Coast stuff yet he makes a few phone calls at the end apologizing and trys to play a good father figure and I'm supposed to buy that? Well we all know the truth. They did way too much sugarcoating for me to believe it.
Shockingly I did enjoy the movie as a whole but I'm very big on honesty and sadly little of it was in this film. Anyone who agrees and disagrees share what you think as well I'm curious to know
Rafiqa $.